How many women would feel relieved or overjoyed to hear that there husband is dead? Not many in fact, but in the story written by Kate Chopin, a Louisiana cotton broker and a local colorist in the mid-18th century and early 19th century, “The Story of an Hour”, the now widow, Mrs. Mallard, was over joyed when hearing of her husband’s death. Could the joy she was experiencing be eluding to something else? Also, could there have been a mix up of identification in the accident that her husband was in, and lastly were they really in love? I will address these questions in the following paragraphs.
In my first analysis, Mrs. Mallard’s response in receiving the terrible news about her husband being killed in a train accident was as any other wives’ …show more content…
Mallard actually died but if there was maybe a mix up. He could have very well been away for quite some time because it was said that when he returned he did look travel stained and he was carrying his things. He could have very well been in the accident as well. As we all know, in wrecks there is wreckage. People’s items and belongings were most likely scattered in all places and directions. It is very possible that Mr. Mallard lost his identification of some sort and that is could have been taken up and mistaken for someone else that passed in the accident, which lead to his name being added to the list of people that was killed in the …show more content…
She didn’t know it because her mind was clouded with happy thoughts of the many years she thought she had to come of her living for herself. In the end when she finally opened the door, it is said that she had a feverish triumph in her eyes and that she clasped her sister’s waist and that they descended down the stairs. I believe that in the moment when she clasped her sister’s waist, that Mrs. Mallard had passed and it was her sister that carried her down the stairs. I also believe that there was, in fact, a mix up in the accident which caused the rather surprising entrance of her husband right after the moment of her death. Lastly, I do not believe that their love was strong. Any wife that loves their husband would not have quickly thought the thoughts that Mrs. Mallard had and would not have been so relieved. In the end Mrs. Mallard could have really died of
In my first analysis, Mrs. Mallard’s response in receiving the terrible news about her husband being killed in a train accident was as any other wives’ …show more content…
Mallard actually died but if there was maybe a mix up. He could have very well been away for quite some time because it was said that when he returned he did look travel stained and he was carrying his things. He could have very well been in the accident as well. As we all know, in wrecks there is wreckage. People’s items and belongings were most likely scattered in all places and directions. It is very possible that Mr. Mallard lost his identification of some sort and that is could have been taken up and mistaken for someone else that passed in the accident, which lead to his name being added to the list of people that was killed in the …show more content…
She didn’t know it because her mind was clouded with happy thoughts of the many years she thought she had to come of her living for herself. In the end when she finally opened the door, it is said that she had a feverish triumph in her eyes and that she clasped her sister’s waist and that they descended down the stairs. I believe that in the moment when she clasped her sister’s waist, that Mrs. Mallard had passed and it was her sister that carried her down the stairs. I also believe that there was, in fact, a mix up in the accident which caused the rather surprising entrance of her husband right after the moment of her death. Lastly, I do not believe that their love was strong. Any wife that loves their husband would not have quickly thought the thoughts that Mrs. Mallard had and would not have been so relieved. In the end Mrs. Mallard could have really died of